http://www.alantek.com Alan Tek's Blog About Traveling Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:56:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.alantek.com/2008/06/12/taipei-zoo/ http://www.alantek.com/2008/06/12/taipei-zoo/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:22:38 +0000 admin http://www.alantek.com/2008/06/12/taipei-zoo/ Hey everyone! We haven’t been up to that much lately, but we did have an amazing time at Yilan beach/market a couple weeks ago.  We traveled with one of my friend’s back home and her local Taiwanese friend. It was a cloudy day, so I didn’t take pictures of the beach this time but, there [...]]]> Hey everyone! We haven’t been up to that much lately, but we did have an amazing time at Yilan beach/market a couple weeks ago.  We traveled with one of my friend’s back home and her local Taiwanese friend. It was a cloudy day, so I didn’t take pictures of the beach this time but, there was some really great waves and I had my first attempt at surfing.  The night market in Yilan was really good, and I tried ’stinky to-fu’ for the first time… it’s a Taiwanese delicacy and basically smells like stinky feet and you can smell it a mile away. We also went to the Taipei zoo which was amazing! for 60 NTD or $2 CDN you can spend your entire day at the zoo, and it’s really big… we didn’t even get a chance to see everything our first trip there.  There was also a recent holiday here in Taiwan, called ‘Dragon boat festival’.  I didn’t get a chance to see any dragon boat races, but there was a free Opera in a park near our place with around 5000+ people in attendance. It was really good and was performed by Taiwan’s most famous Opera group.  I have posted new pictures of Yilan market, the Taipei zoo and the Opera HERE, along with comments on the pictures.  If I ever get a chance to upload some videos, I will post them here as well.

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